Re: Neighborhoods of the Rich and Famous

We visited Santa Barbara while on a coastal cruise last year. I think a lot of celebrities like Santa Barbara because it's far enough away from L.A. that you don't get a lot of tour buses driving past your house every day. It's a LOT quieter than living in L.A., and is quite beautiful. We saw the outside of the house Oprah bought. She has a LOT of money . . .

Re: Neighborhoods of the Rich and Famous

Originally Posted by AZChristian

We visited Santa Barbara while on a coastal cruise last year. I think a lot of celebrities like Santa Barbara because it's far enough away from L.A. that you don't get a lot of tour buses driving past your house every day. It's a LOT quieter than living in L.A., and is quite beautiful. We saw the outside of the house Oprah bought. She has a LOT of money . . .

I've read that Oprah has homes in LA, Chicago, FL, NJ, Colorado, Hawaii and one more place, I think.

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Momrek06, Your place sounds great!

I did see many places for the price range you describe. I guess for a nice place with lots of room like you have, that is common. Here's a link for the place I saw. It's a basic 1 bedroom apt. one bath, small.....I did see some comments that it wasn't all that bad... It's $1395.oo per month and I think it includes utilities, but I'm not postive.360 South Rexford Drive #12, Beverly Hills CA - Trulia

I have no connection with this apt complex and am no way marketing it. lol Just looking at the landscape of the community. It is rather tempting though............ lol

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We were on the same California Coastal Cruise as AZ and her husband the week before their trip. I had not been to Santa Barbara before and it was miserable drizzling weather so we took a quick open bus tour (saw Oprah's house too, LOL). It is a very beautiful town with architectural building codes that have commercial and government buildings and many homes in the Spanish Colonial Style. Their courthouse has been called the most beautiful public building in the US. I think they're right. Their Mission is called The Queen of Missions with two bell towers. Our tour guide said there are 200+ different kinds of Palm trees and I found the landscaping throughout quite impressive. If the weather was better that day, I'd have explored more but from what I saw, it is a very beautiful place and I'd live there before LA any day. Because it is on the ocean it has similar weather to what I'm used to.

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Here's a street view tour of Sunset Blvd. through a residential area from Bel Aire. He gives good tips on the real estate. The speaker says he's on his way to Lisa Vanderpump's restaurant and highly recommends it. lol